A five-patch star built from squares and half-square triangles: a centre nine-patch with a light plus and dark centre, ringed by eight triangle points that run out towards the light corner squares, with a dark square at the middle of each side.
Sew five rows of five units. Keep the triangle units oriented so each pair of points meets at the inner corner of a corner square.
Four paws, each a large square with two half-square-triangle claws along each of its two outer sides and a small background square in the outer corner, separated by sashing strips around a centre square.
A centre square wrapped in five rounds of logs that spiral around it, one log per side in turn; the logs on two adjacent sides are light and the other two are dark, so the block divides into light and dark halves along a diagonal.
A magnificent eight-pointed star radiating from the center, created from diamond shapes with background triangles and corner squares.
A traditional 3×3 checkerboard of 2″ squares.
A nine-patch star: plain corners, a centre square, and quarter-square-triangle side units whose triangles form eight points.
Four large half-square triangle units in the corners with their inner halves framing a centre cross of five squares, the edge and centre squares in one fabric and the squares between them in another.